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Spurs to sound out Thomas Frank, Liverpool relaxed over Díaz comments: football news – live

Men’s transfer interactive | Women’s transfer interactiveRead the latest edition of Football DailyAsian World Cup qualifiers: Jordan and Uzbekistan have secured qualification at the World Cup finals for the very first time, while South Korea also booked their place in the tournament for the 11th time on the bounce. The three teams join Argentina, New Zealand, Iran and Japan in qualifying for World Cup 2026, while the USA, Canada and Mexico qualify automatically as co-hosts.Uzbekistan, who count Manchester City defender Abdukodir Khusanov among their number, booked their place courtesy of a sco..

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:35:04 GMT

Spurs move to sound out Thomas Frank as they weigh up Postecoglou’s future

Tottenham impressed with Frank’s work at BrentfordClub meet intermediaries to discuss potential moveTottenham have met with intermediaries to discuss a potential move for Brentford’s Thomas Frank. Spurs have been considering whether to persist with their manager, Ange Postecoglou, since the end of the season and his future remains in doubt.Postecoglou brought glory to the club when he ended a 17-year trophy drought by overseeing a win over Manchester United in the Europa League final. The victory transformed the mood in and around Spurs, with some fans feeling he deserves the chance to carry o..

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:06:56 GMT

Thomas Tuchel discards Southgate’s blueprint to build England’s mettle

New manager is not concerned by developing culture or blooding players for the future. He knows his job is to winWhen, in April 1965, a month shy of his 30th birthday, Jack Charlton was called up to play for England for the first time, he was baffled. In characteristically blunt fashion, he asked Alf Ramsey why on earth he had picked him. “I have a pattern of play in mind,” Ramsey replied. “And I pick the best players to fit the pattern. I don’t necessarily always pick the best players.” Or at least that is the printable version of their conversation that has been left to history. “You’re a go..

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:49:10 GMT

Demise of TGP Europe leaves Premier League clubs with income gap to fill | Philippe Auclair

More than half of the top-flight clubs in 2024-25 had dealings with the company, which exited the British market last monthBarely anyone outside the gambling world and the sports marketing industry had heard of TGP Europe (The Gaming Platform) before the Great Britain Gambling Commission announced last month that the Isle of Man-based company, which was threatened with a £3.3m fine for multiple violations of anti-money laundering regulations, had chosen to surrender all of its licences and exit the British market.Yet the aftershock of this apparently inconsequential event was immediately felt ..

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:00:27 GMT

PSG win the treble as Strasbourg and Nice soar: the Ligue 1 season review

Ousmane Dembélé, Luis Enrique and João Neves took PSG to new heights but they were not the only stars in the leagueBy Get French Football NewsOusmane Dembélé has been a man on a mission in 2025. “I had a challenge with my friends. There is something to win from it: Patek and Rolex watches,” he joked after he scored the winner in the Trophée des Champions in January. The more goals, the more watches was the bet made. But his 25 goals in 2025 have earned him more than expensive wrist pieces. Continue reading.....

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:25:53 GMT

Football transfer rumours: Arsenal target Rogers? Gyökeres and Cherki to Manchester?

Today’s rumours are feeling the envySix days into the first transfer window of the summer and the Mill is churning faster than a well-oiled machine. Leading the charge are Arsenal, whose Premier League sights have led them to add Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers and Feyenoord’s Igor Paixão to their shopping list of potential attacking targets. Getting Rogers would demand a significant fee – likely north of £50m – with the former Middlesbrough man pulling up trees for Unai Emery’s team this season, with 14 goals and 15 assists in 54 games. Paixão would be the cheaper option. The 24-year-old had an o..

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:18:16 GMT

Lamine Yamal dazzles as Spain win goal-fest with France to set up Portugal final

Another day, another final. Another night to enjoy, and the promise that there may be many more to come. The European champions made their way to Munich where they will defend their Nations League title thanks to a 5-4 victory over France which left something more than just the result in Stuttgart.It may not be so absurd to imagine that this Spain could match that one, although there are lessons to be learnt at the back. Just as it may not be so absurd to suggest that the 17-year-old in their team is not going to be the best, he already is. If this was an audition for the Ballon d’Or against O..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:20:23 GMT

‘Asia’s chokers’ smile at last: Uzbekistan’s hurt over as they reach first World Cup

Goal difference and referee howler cost White Wolves in the past but ‘Mr Uzbekistan football’ has guided them over lineThere was no choking for Uzbekistan this time, or if there was, it was in an attempt to hold back tears of joy. Those eight minutes of added time on Thursday in Abu Dhabi were long but then it has been a long wait and a long road to qualify for a first World Cup.Uzbekistan have snatched summers of rest from the jaws of World Cup appearances more than once in the past, so the goalkeeper Utkir Yusupov could be forgiven for taking his time and faking an injury or two. He was the ..

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:00:30 GMT

Sarina Wiegman and England still have work to do to blow away clouds of doubt | Suzanne Wrack

Glitzy Euro squad launch helps the feelgood factor but there are still questions over squad harmony, strength in depth and player welfareMusic thumping, quick transitions, a host of celebrities and inspirational words. There’s nothing like an England squad announcement video to get you in the mood for a major tournament. “I hope you can feel it from the streets to the stands, the summer is in the safest hands,” the poet Sophia Thakur tells us, exactly one month out from England’s first game of Euro 2025 against France.The slogan is “It’s time to go again” and the squad is announced by a host o..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:00:13 GMT

The long and winding road to David Beckham’s knighthood

The former England captain may feel he is finally being duly rewarded but it has not come without its questionsIt has been a long and winding road to David Beckham’s knighthood – one marked by hurdles, sweary emails, fights with the taxman and an ever-closer relationship between the former England captain and the royal family. Continue reading.....

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:05:10 GMT

Euro 2025: Sarina Wiegman’s England squad – in pictures

England’s head coach has named a mixture of youth and experience in her squad for the tournament in Switzerland Continue reading.....

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:06:05 GMT

Men’s transfer window summer 2025: all deals from Europe’s top five leagues

All the latest Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A deals and a club-by-club guideWomen’s transfers summer 2025: all the moves Continue reading.....

Wed, 28 May 2025 10:00:10 GMT

Women’s transfer window summer 2025: all deals from world’s top six leagues

Every deal in the NWSL, WSL, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Première Ligue and Serie A Femminile as well as a club-by-club guideMen’s transfers summer 2025: all the moves Continue reading.....

Wed, 28 May 2025 10:00:10 GMT

Crystal Palace’s Europa League place in doubt after Uefa rejects owners’ blind trust move

Club co-owner John Textor is also majority owner of LyonPalace may drop out of Europa League or Europe entirelyUefa has rejected offers from the Crystal Palace shareholders John Textor and David Blitzer to put their shares in a blind trust to ensure the club can compete in Europe next season.Palace’s participation in the Europa League has been cast into doubt as the club’s largest shareholder, Textor, is also the majority owner of Lyon, who have also qualified for the second-tier competition. And to compound matters, Blitzer’s Danish club Brøndby have qualified for the Conference League, so th..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:30:11 GMT

Ex-Arsenal academy footballer jailed over £600,000 drug smuggling plot

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was arrested after NCA officers seized cannabis being transported through Stansted by two women he had recruitedAn ex-Arsenal academy footballer has been jailed for four years for his involvement in a £600,000 drug smuggling plot after a court heard his financial difficulties after a period out of contract led to a “catastrophic error of judgment”.Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was arrested after officers from the National Crime Agency seized an estimated £600,000 of cannabis as it was being brought through Stansted by two women he had recruited – his girlfriend and her friend. Contin..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:26:16 GMT

Trump travel ban includes exemption for World Cup and Olympic athletes

Fifa declined to comment on recently signed banUnclear whether exception includes Club World CupDonald Trump’s newly signed travel ban contains an exemption that could apply to players, staff or associated families with clubs participating in the 2025 Club World Cup, the 2026 Fifa World Cup or the 2028 Olympics.The US president has signed a sweeping order banning travel from 12 countries and restricting travel from seven others, reviving and expanding the travel bans from his first term. Continue reading.....

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:58:05 GMT

Socceroos all but book World Cup 2026 berth after last-gasp Aziz Behich goal sinks Japan

Australia claim 1-0 smash-and-grab win over Samurai BlueStunning 90th-minute strike all but secures qualificationIt’s the smash-and-grab to end all smash-and-grabs and one that means everything to Australia. In the 90th minute of a game in which the Socceroos had been besieged by Japan, in which a rampant Samurai Blue had done everything but fashion that clearcut chance they needed to score a winning goal, Aziz Behich went back across his body and bent a shot with his non-preferred right foot beyond Kosei Tani and into the back of the net. With one fell swoop, with his first goal in green and ..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:42:17 GMT

Dave Brailsford to step back from Manchester United and return to Ineos

Jim Ratcliffe planning further shake-up at Old TraffordBrailsford will take up old role as Ineos sporting directorSir Dave Brailsford is to reduce his role at Manchester United under a reshuffle being planned by minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.Brailsford has played a major part since Ratcliffe secured his stake in United in February 2024, stepping down as team principal of the Ineos Grenadiers cycling team to take charge of footballing operations at Old Trafford and investing considerable time and energy in driving change at the club. Continue reading.....

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:14:02 GMT

Chilled Cole Palmer ready to play ‘wherever’ and win spot in England XI

Back in the groove for Chelsea, attacking midfielder will be competing with Bellingham and Foden for World Cup berthThings that Cole Palmer is not bothered about, part 89: golf. Which is a pity as he is spending a warm-weather training week with England at the magnificent Camiral Golf & Wellness resort; the expected venue for the 2031 Ryder Cup.Formula One. Palmer attended the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday with Thomas Tuchel and the rest of the England squad, which he thought was good. “I went to the one in Abu Dhabi not long ago,” he says, presumably meaning the race in Bahrain or Saudi Ar..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:00:10 GMT

The year of Napoli and Scott McTominay: the Serie A season review

The Scottish influence inspired title winners in Naples, Inter blew up and Claudio Ranieri enjoyed his Roman returnThe season has barely ended and already it is clear Serie A will look very different next term. Five of the league’s top 10 sides have parted ways with their managers and a sixth, Claudio Ranieri, is moving upstairs at Roma. More changes may soon follow, with Igor Tudor’s future at Juventus uncertain and Como’s Cesc Fàbregas drawing attention from bigger clubs – including the runners-up, Inter, who need a replacement for Simone Inzaghi.Could we equal the turnover of last summer, w..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:04 GMT

For the USMNT, a successful summer is harder than ever to define

A raft of absences and the nature of the Gold Cup means that, aside from a trophy, the US’s goals are largely intangible.In a certain sense, there really is no winning the Concacaf Gold Cup.Not if you’re the United States men’s national team, at any rate. While the tournament’s name may allude to a glory conferred by the most valuable of precious metals, the whole thing remains among the ugly ducklings of global continental championships. Continue reading.....

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:00:33 GMT

Euro 2025 power rankings: 10-goal Germany on the up, Lionesses slip

Time is running out before the tournament in Switzerland. We rank the 16 sides heading for this summer’s EurosWith the Nations League group stage coming to a close, we take a look at the 16 teams taking part in the European Championship this summer to see how they are shaping up: Continue reading.....

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:40:22 GMT

Not pretty, not fun but Socceroos slog ends with miraculous win amid late drama | Joey Lynch

All it took was a split second – and a swing of Aziz Behich’s right boot – for the sins of the previous 90 minutes in Perth to be washed awayAt half-time of Australia’s 1-0 win over Japan, a smash-and-grab to end all smash-and-grabs that all but punches their tickets to the 2026 World Cup, the Socceroos staff had a clear message for their players. They’d been handily outplayed to that point, lucky to get out of their own half let alone fashion something resembling a threat on their opponent’s goal, as a second-string Samurai Blue outfit dominated almost every meaningful statistic except the on..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:38:48 GMT

‘People think I have disappeared’: Joe Morrell raring to go after 492 days out

Wales midfielder feels ready to return from a knee injury and is looking for a club“It’s been like snakes and ladders,” says the midfielder Joe Morrell, detailing how a hellish 16 months has proved the most difficult duel of his career. An innocuous click in his left knee, a setback in the gym while on holiday in Miami and the onset of arthrofibrosis – a condition where scar tissue builds between joints – and suddenly 492 days have passed since his last appearance, for Portsmouth in a League One match at Oxford.He had just celebrated his 100th game for the club en route to the C..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:03 GMT

Alexsandro sold litter to provide for his family. Now he’s in the Brazil team

Alexsandro’s road to the top was tough – picking through rubbish, jobs on building sites and being rejected by almost every club in Brazil – but he would not let his family downIn 2021, Alexsandro wrote down five dreams in his notebook: to marry and have children with his wife, to live in a big house, to take his family out of the favela, to play for a big club and to save some money for his holidays. This year, he has been called up to the Brazil squad for the first time, and now hopes to play at the 2026 World Cup. “Now that I’ve turned those human dreams into reality, it is time to work on ..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:14:00 GMT

In an inexperienced US squad, Chris Richards’ presence will be key

The Crystal Palace defender has enjoyed one of his finest professional seasons, and is now an undisputed leader in the campChris Richards is fresh off a strong end to his Premier League season, and he’s staring down an important task: take hold of a leadership role in the US backline, and help to fix an ailing US men’s national team.Easy, right? Continue reading.....

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:30:35 GMT

Sergiño Dest dropped from USMNT roster for Gold Cup

PSV defender has only recently come back from ACL tearJohn Tolkin called in to squad as replacementSergiño Dest was dropped from the US roster for the Concacaf Gold Cup over fitness concerns, leaving the Americans heading to the tournament with just four players who started in the team’s final match of the 2022 World Cup.“The technical, medical and high performance staffs have done a series of evaluations this week on all the players in camp, and in the case of Sergiño we determined the best decision is for the player to have an individualized training program for the summer so he can focus on..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:42:28 GMT

Paul Mitchell’s Newcastle exit leaves Eddie Howe in position of maximum strength | Louise Taylor

There was a lack of trust between Newcastle’s sporting director and manager from the moment Mitchell joined last yearThe table was all wrong. In retrospect it offered the first clue that lack of emotional intelligence would prove central to Paul Mitchell’s undoing at Newcastle.It was early last September when reporters were invited to St James’ Park to meet the club’s then newish sporting director. As Mitchell strode into the windowless Sir Bobby Robson suite and took his seat at the head of a very long rectangular table he neglected to notice that journalists at the opposite end were isolated..

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:00:34 GMT

Viva Vitinha: how PSG’s deep conductor proved Lionel Messi wrong | Barney Ronay

Midfield fulcrum was not rated by the Argentinian maestro or Wolves but was central to Champions League triumph“Not only are you bad, but you’re hurting me.” The words, there, or so it was claimed, of Lionel Messi; and however you spin it, a fairly tough six-month performance review from the greatest player of all time and your own footballing idol.Back in February 2023 Vitinha was very quick to deny that any such training ground altercation had taken place between himself and Messi, whatever the reports in the French football press at the time (another version of that conversation has Me..

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:57:48 GMT

From Ekitike to Garnacho: transfers to look out for this summer

With the first summer window fast approaching, we look at 10 of the top talents who could be on the moveIt’s good news for anyone who enjoys the chaos of transfer deadline day: this summer there’s not one but two to look forward to in the Premier League. Due to an unique registration period for the expanded Club World Cup, the window will open on Sunday 1 June until Tuesday 10 June before closing for a few days. It will then reopen on Monday 16 June until Monday 1 September. Here are a selection of players who could be on the move. Continue reading.....

Sat, 31 May 2025 11:00:42 GMT

Game is up for Inter after Champions League journey ends in bitter humiliation | Jonathan Liew

After losing two finals in three seasons to state-owned investment funds, this ageing team reduced their fans to tearsThey stay just long enough to see the trophy lifted. Most have discarded their losing medals by the time the pyrotechnics go off and Marquinhos raises the European Cup into the muggy Munich night. There is a watery smattering of applause. Then, with a turn of pace so sadly lacking during the game itself, they turn and head for the tunnel, past a battalion of photographers whose lenses are facing in the opposite direction.What does it feel like to lose a Champions League final 5..

Sat, 31 May 2025 22:47:13 GMT

David Squires on … the Paris Saint-Germain fairytale

Our cartoonist takes us to a magical kingdom for the story of how a pumpkin of a club became the kings of EuropeBuy a copy of this cartoon in our Print ShopDavid’s new book, Chaos in the Box: buy it now Continue reading.....

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:53:47 GMT

Tottenham’s Pedro Porro: ‘We won. Let them talk and do all the memes they want now’

The Spurs and Spain defender talks about the suffering before Bilbao, Ange Postecoglou’s future and playing France in the Nations League semi-finalsPedro Porro had to take a pee. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” the Tottenham defender says and then he laughs, which he does a lot. It was late in Bilbao and in the home dressing room at San Mamés, up the tunnel and to the right, players divided by metal bars, the party had begun. But he had been selected for the drugs test and was stuck in a much smaller and much, much quieter room, drinking as much possible as quickly as possible until he could g..

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:17:39 GMT

‘Everything came so quick’: Jordon Ibe on Liverpool, trauma and starting afresh

Winger has overcome tragedy and mental health problems. Now he wants to give his football career ‘one last push’Jordon Ibe was not supposed to go to the park that day. He reiterates the point several times when recalling the events of 17 June 2008. Ibe’s mum had forbidden his attendance at Tabard Gardens in Southwark, south-east London, but he went anyway; a kickabout was too much of a draw for the then 12‑year‑old. That day Ibe witnessed his friend David Idowu being stabbed through the heart. A few weeks later, Idowu died.“I’d not even seen a butter knife,” Ibe says. The cadence of his v..

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:00:42 GMT

The Belgian lab shaping modern soccer’s data revolution

A small corner of one of the world’s oldest universities has moved the sport forward, and made the argument for research institutions writ largeIf you hope to grasp why modern soccer looks the way it does, or the long strides we’ve made recently in understanding how it actually functions, it helps to know about what’s been happening at one of the world’s oldest universities, in Belgium.That’s where you’ll find the Sports Analytics Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven, headed up by Jesse Davis, a Wisconsinite computer science professor. Davis grew up going to basketball and football games a..

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:41:34 GMT

Our Champions League team of the season: a teen sensation to a marauding Gunner

PSG left little doubt as to who the best team in this season’s Champions League was, but there was individual brilliance on plenty of other squadsGianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain) Continue reading.....

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:00:38 GMT

Football Daily | Cristiano Ronaldo is still very much here. But what happens next?

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When Portugal went out of Euro 2024 on penalties last summer, everyone presumed that would be the last we’d see of Cristiano Ronaldo in green and red. Aged 39, he’d scored 130 goals for a Portugal side he’d served with distinction at five previous major tournaments but last year’s jamboree in Germany seemd a step too far. A starter in each of his nation’s five matches, he finished all but one of them, took 29 shots on goal without scoring and despite being a preening, narcissistic passenger was kept on the pitch for the entirety of Portugal’s ..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:55:07 GMT

Inside the plight of Blackburn Rovers: this is a call for football to do better | Rachel Dugdale

Decision to follow Reading in self-relegation came as a gut-punch – it’s time for proper investment and care in the sportLast year, I was advised to protect myself and not speak out when Reading’s owners made the decision to self-relegate us from the Championship. I followed that advice. But after the confirmation that Blackburn Rovers are taking the same path, I believe it’s time to speak out.As players we were blindsided by the decision of the club to withdraw us from the Championship. We had felt positive throughout the season, we knew we had by far the lowest budget in the league but we fe..

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:21:14 GMT

PSG’s Champions League win was thrilling. It was still sportswashing | Jonathan Wilson

After years as a directionless collection of celebrity footballers, PSG are a true team now. But they still represent one of the sport’s darkest trendsSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereParis Saint-Germain’s success in the Champions League final on Saturday was a victory for youth and adventure. It was a victory for a team built with a coherent vision, and a rebuke to those who believe the game is just about collecting the biggest names. It was a victory for Luis Enrique, a very fine coach who has suffered dreadful personal tragedy. It was a victory for forward-thinking, progressive, ..

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:56:48 GMT

Football transfer rumours: Arsenal and Liverpool to battle for Sesko’s signature?

Today’s fluff have a hint of deja vuWith the distraction of actual football finally over, the football fans among us are finally able to focus on what this is all really about: whether James Trafford will leave Burnley for Newcastle.The 22-year-old burst on to the scene when leaving Manchester City as the third most-expensive British goalkeeper in history, despite never having played in the Championship, never mind the Premier League. Newcastle tried to buy him last summer, but in true football is the winner style, instead sold Elliot Anderson to Nottingham Forest and took the Greek keeper Ody..

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:15:27 GMT

End of season mailbag special – Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Philippe Auclair and John Brewin to answer your questions from the Football Weekly mailbagRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; Philippe begins with a little PSG and then the panel pick their moment of the season before moving on to transfer news including Liam Delap to Chelsea and the possibility of Bryan Mbuemo at Manchester United. Continue reading.....

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:37:29 GMT

Football quiz: test your knowledge of one-sided European Cup finals

After PSG set a new record with their 5-0 rout of Inter, we pose 12 questions on other lopsided results Continue reading.....

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:53:06 GMT

The Joy of Six: fairytale domestic cup runs from around Europe

Half a dozen teams from outside their nation’s top flight who made it all the way to a domestic cup finalFrance’s secondary cup competition ran from 1994 to 2020, pushed by Ligue 1 sides who felt aggrieved by the Coupe de France’s great leveller of home advantage for its minnows. Paris St-Germain were the winners of the first and last editions of the League Cup and another seven in between. They lost one final, 25 years ago, to a team that were the antithesis of France’s spoiled ruling classes. Continue reading.....

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:00:08 GMT

Premier League 2024-25 review: our writers’ best and worst of the season

Best players, best managers, best matches, best goals, biggest flops and biggest gripes: our writers have their sayMohamed Salah. The numbers don’t lie – 47 goal contributions in the Premier League was an outstanding return from the Egyptian, who seems to be getting better with age. Ed Aarons Continue reading.....

Tue, 27 May 2025 07:00:20 GMT

Premier League 2024-25 review: managers of the season

Arne Slot’s first season could not have gone any better while Wolves fans drank to Vítor Pereira’s arrivalBy winning the league, the Dutchman surprised pretty much everyone. He faced the daunting task of succeeding Jürgen Klopp and inherited the German’s squad, adding only Federico Chiesa, who barely kicked a ball in anger. Not much changed from the previous year, except Ryan Gravenberch became the designated defensive midfielder as Slot’s Liverpool looked to get on the ball as much as possible. Slot was never going to be a personality who generated headlines like Klopp did, keeping his cards ..

Mon, 26 May 2025 08:00:51 GMT

Premier League 2024-25 review: flops of the season

Managers, teams and players who have disappointed over the campaign – including the reigning footballer of the yearRuben Amorim’s average points tally of a point per league game since arriving at Manchester United in early November puts him just above Malky Mackay’s record at Cardiff and Paul Jewell’s Premier League record with Bradford, Wigan and Derby. While Sporting won the Primeira Liga title without Amorim, United have fallen down the table to 15th since the Portuguese took the reins from the interim coach, Ruud van Nistelrooy. Much of the ire towards United has been directed at the owner..

Mon, 26 May 2025 09:00:53 GMT

Premier League 2024-25 review: players of the season

Eberechi Eze has come into his own at Crystal Palace while Villa’s Morgan Rogers has shown what he is really capable ofPedants may protest that Eze’s sublime FA Cup form (quarter-final and semi-final screamers before a winner at Wembley) is inadmissable evidence in a Premier League review. But he was already one of the players of the season long before helping Crystal Palace win their first major trophy. Always capable of the spectacular, Eze’s stay at Selhurst Park had been characterised by inconsistency, but his finest season has come after he finished 2023-24 in red-hot form and earned a pl..

Mon, 26 May 2025 07:00:52 GMT